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Air travel is a huge source of carbon emissions. Though very little can be done at the moment to reduce emissions, green minded travelers will be able to purchase carbon offsets at the San Francisco airport. The carbon kiosks at the SF airport are the result of a partnership between the city and 3Degrees, an [...]

New PC concept from designer Luis Luna make the desktop appear more appealing visually,and give it the ability to offset at least a small amount of the CO2 it produces during its lifetime. The design gives a smoother look to the desktop as a sleek circular package. The center of this circle has a cavity [...]

Thursday this week seems to have been a key day for environmental protest. Chinese pollution protest In Fujian Province, eastern China, villagers blockaded a road to protest against high levels of lead in the blood of their children. Local residents are convinced that the children’s excessive lead levels are the result of pollution from the  [...]

Recent forest fires resulted in a quarter of the Angeles National Forest being burned to a crisp. More than 160,000 acres of wood and chaparral were destroyed.  Impassioned editorials are calling for the restoration of the forest’s beauty spots and trails, but what is the political cost of restoring the environment at a pace faster [...]

Cute animals are the basis for our most popular posts Some of our most poplar posts here at Peachy Green have to do with cute animals.  Because this is an environmentally-focused blog, we love to bring you stories of success and inspiration from the wild.  From a bobcat and fawn friendship, to a whale of [...]

Lunch skins from 3 Green Moms A friend of mine tipped me off yesterday to 3 Green Moms, and I tell you – I have not been more excited about something like this for quite some time!  These entrepreneurial mothers have created a product that can both help save the environment and serve as a [...]

They Might be Giants entertains the crowd The indie/pop group,”They Might Be Giants,” has turned in recent years to entertaining children with unique songs and videos.  Not since “Schoolhouse Rock” have educational tunes been so engaging. As a proponent of electric cars, I was especially thrilled to find a new music video which illustrates the [...]

Last week’s post about glowsticks reminded me that we’ve got a torn up high visibility jacket (well, waistcoat) in the cellar. It’s been there for a good few years now – I found it on the top of a wheelie bin in our street after we’d had a period of roadworks and I thought “ooh, [...]

As I mentioned the other week, we currently doing some work on our new house before moving in – the stuff that is far, far easier to do when the house is empty. One of the biggest jobs has been taking down a 1970s style cemented-up crazy-paving stone wall in the dining room – it [...]

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show The 2009 Frankfort Motor Show was truly significant for the number of low-carbon cars on display. There were over 50 electric and hybrid cars in the haus, with more than a couple dozen of them naked for the first time before the glare of public scrutiny. After gazing upon so [...]